Post-positivism

For GH the context of discovery and context of justification is blurred

GH focus on the centrality of self-interpretations in the social world, context, and the relevance of the ontological presuppostions that are brought to bear when the self-interpretations of the actors and the data itself needs to be interpreted.

Of course, how far we go in deferring to the self-interpretations of the actors in generating or accepting a proto-explanation will be a function of the specific ontology (e.g. hermeneutical, critical realist, poststructuralist) underpinning one’s approach. What is essential here is that the minimal hermeneutical insight be taken seriously, in the sense that our explanations ought to be properly contextualized in relation to the self-interpretations of the subjects themselves. (37).

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